Nick Moran’s lively film, based on his successful West End musical play, lives up to its description as the stranger-than-fiction story of Joe Meek, the independent record producer who wrote and recorded Telstar in the early Sixties, which became the first British single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic.

Starsailor singer James Walsh bellowed "Hello London!" with uncharacteristic assertiveness at the start of his band's comeback show last night, perhaps a sign of a new forcefulness in a bid to fight the fade.